Sentence examples for Quite counter from inspiring English sources

How pleasant — and quite counter to his celebrated line — to know Mr. Eliot.

"The notion that Egypt isn't ready for democracy I think runs quite counter to what we see happening in Tahrir Square and on the streets in cities throughout the country," Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said.

Without information about the absolute risks, health information may become misleading and individuals may reach conclusions that go quite counter to what they actually think about the appropriate balance of benefits and risks of treatments.

Often, it's quite counter-cultural.

The actual design of the cube is quite counter-intuitive as anyone who has disassembled a Rubik's Cube can attest.

This is actually quite counter-intuitive – you'd think that being reminded that Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon would be a more effective way of strengthening that memory than by being asked the question: "Who was the second man on the moon?".

This is quite counter-intuitive.

Not quite counter-culture, but it was fun.

However, a theory about welfare that denies the possibility of lives worth living is quite counter-intuitive (Ryberg 1996a).

Notice that an increase in (alpha ) leads to opposite effects on (theta ^) and (rho ^), something which, at first, is quite counter-intuitive.

"Success in this market requires you to forget a lot of what has driven the most recent wave of gaming — it's quite counter-intuitive", warns Collins.